However, if none of the larger parties can receive enough votes to form their preferred coalition, a grand coalition might be their only choice for forming a government.

Where national conservative parties were weak or non-existent, conservatives were more likely to rely on military dictatorship as a preferred form of government.

Bubi and Fernandino parties on the island preferred separation from Río Muni or a loose federation.

Therefore, the FDP wasn't able to form a coalition with its preferred partners, the CDU / CSU parties.

Until 1991, President Mauno Koivisto and two of the three major parties, Center Party and the Social Democrats opposed the idea of European Union membership and preferred entering into the European Economic Area treaty.

At this point a transfer pact was decided upon between Fine Gael and Labour, as both parties were normally preferred partners for each other in general elections.

Minh was said to have preferred playing mah-jongg, playing tennis at the elite Cercle Sportif, tending to his garden and giving tea parties to fighting the Vietcong or running the country.

Allegedly, Clift was unpopular among the Hollywood elite for his refusal to conform to Hollywood standards, since he refused to publicize his private life, avoided movie premieres and parties, was usually unavailable for interviews, and preferred to live outside of Los Angeles.

The MEP announced that they preferred a coalition between the large parties, the MEP and the AVP.

However the progress of the SDP-Liberal Alliance as a whole was hampered with policy splits between the two parties, first over the miners ' strike ( 1984-5 ) where Owen and most of the SDP favoured a fairly tough line but the Liberals preferred compromise and negotiation.

Some communities preferred the term " festival ", while others simply referred to " parties ".

In other words, parties which identify as freethinking tend to favor non-doctrinal, rational approaches to their preferred ideologies, and arose as secular alternatives to both clerically-aligned parties as well as labor-aligned parties.

He was not Mike Harris's preferred choice for the position ( the Premier supported Margaret Marland ) but won with support from members in all three parties.

He participated in the Siege of Damascus, led by his wife's half-brother Baldwin III of Jerusalem, and with the support of Baldwin, Louis VII of France, and Conrad III of Germany, he lay claim to Damascus ; the native crusader barons preferred one of their own nobles, Guy Brisebarre, lord of Beirut, but in any case the siege was a failure and all parties returned home.

In the same year, Claude Buffier published Homère en arbitrage, in which he concluded that both parties were really agreed on the essential point that Homer was one of the greatest geniuses the world had seen, and that, as a whole, no other poem could be preferred to his ; and, soon after ( on 5 April 1716 ) in the house of Jean-Baptiste de Valincourt, Mme.

" Although this could be done by nationalizing land and then leasing it to private parties, George preferred taxing unimproved land value.

" As political parties had interests which were adverse to the rights of citizens and to the general welfare of the nation, several Founding Fathers preferred a nonpartisan form of government.

Stalin, suspicious of foreign communist parties, preferred to rely on institutions and people directly under his control.

The Wilsons had preferred to begin the administration without an inaugural ball, and the First Lady's entertainments were simple, but her unaffected cordiality made her parties successful.

The radicals preferred a unitary republic, with a much lesser role for the provinces, and once the republic had been declared the two parties turned against each other.

The authorities can easily pressure businessmen to fund preferred candidates and parties.

The island is closer to Samoa than to the rest of the Cook Islands and transport via Samoa is becoming a preferred option for Pukapukans visiting in organised groups ( tele parties ) from New Zealand and Australia.

From the evidence `` it may be conjectured that core - core marriages are the preferred unions for core males and females ; ;

They are grouped with the outer bodies — centaurs, Neptune trojans, and trans-Neptunian objects — as minor planets, which is the term preferred in astronomical circles.

In Spanish, at least one reference reports estadounidense, estado-unidense or estadunidense are preferred to americano for U. S. nationals ; the latter tends to refer to any resident of the Americas and not necessarily from the United States.

This usage has been regarded as Eurocentric by some, and the alternative terms Lesser Antarctica and Greater Antarctica ( respectively ) are sometimes preferred.

In Scandinavia, forn sed / forn siðr " old custom ", Nordisk sed " Nordic custom " or hedensk sed / heiðinn siður " heathen custom " are preferred.

Gsm or mp3 are generally preferred where the recorder allows.

Photomultiplier tubes are the most frequently used detectors in LS AAS, although solid state detectors might be preferred because of their better signal-to-noise ratio.

In this system, sons are preferred from eldest to youngest, the heirs of a son over the next son, and any son over daughters, but there is no preference among daughters: they or their heirs inherit equally.

In Scotland, the eldest sister is preferred over younger sisters ; sisters are not considered equal co-heirs.

They state that response to any given antipsychotic can be variable so that trials may be necessary, and that lower doses are to be preferred where possible.

As a rule, partial amputations are preferred to preserve joint function, but in oncological surgery, disarticulation is favored.

These procedures are preferred by some breast cancer patients because they result in an abdominoplasty ( tummy tuck ), and allow the breast to be reconstructed with one's own tissues instead of a foreign implant.

Short-and intermediate-acting benzodiazepines are preferred for the treatment of insomnia ; longer-acting benzodiazepines are recommended for the treatment of anxiety.

Moreover, in geriatric medicine, if benzodiazepines are necessary, those with short half-lives ( e. g. lorazepam & oxazepam ) are preferred, as they do not require hepatic oxidation.

Benzodiazepines are the preferred choice in the management of alcohol withdrawal syndrome, in particular, for the prevention and treatment of the dangerous complication of seizures and in subduing severe delirium.

Short to intermediate-acting benzodiazepines are preferred in the elderly such as oxazepam and temazepam.

In Maryland, ten ounce cans are the preferred package.

It primarily eats zooplankton, insects, insect larvae, and phytoplankton, although it can eat a variety of other foods, such as worms and small crustaceans, if its preferred sources are not readily available.

As far back as the early 2nd century, there is evidence that the codex — usually of papyrus — was the preferred format among Christians: in the library of the Villa of the Papyri, Herculaneum ( buried in AD 79 ), all the texts ( Greek literature ) are scrolls ( see Herculaneum papyri ); in the Nag Hammadi " library ", secreted about AD 390, all the texts ( Gnostic Christian ) are codices.

The latter system is preferred by some as it accustoms the weaners to the presence of people and they are trained to take feed other than grass.

The preferred media for Chicano art are murals and graphic arts.